International Trade committee  A couple of the points you raised were specific to the duties. Those you won't find at BDC. Companies need to go to Canada Border Services Agency for the duty drawback program. You described a scenario where a company is importing a commodity into Canada for the purposes of expor

International Trade committee  The secondary list you are talking about is the consumer products portion, right? For members who may not be familiar, we had three components of the retaliation: one was around aluminum. The second was around steel products, and the third was end-use products. They were carefull

International Trade committee  Personally, I have not had a lot of outreach from them. I think in the middle of the summer, at one point, there were questions around some of the commodity groups and whether they were beginning to be faced with price increases as a result, and I think we were asked to look at a

International Trade committee  The decision is made by the Minister of Finance, and we were part of the consultations. We did a lot of the analysis. I think you're going to have that department here in a week or so. I just don't know what date they will make an announcement, but I can tell you that it was robu

International Trade committee  Again, on their website, the Department of Finance has a remissions relief form where companies can identify these specific instances where they can't get something in Canada, or they're obliged as a result of contract to continue their relationship with a foreign party. Those ar

International Trade committee  I don't think we.... Patrick, do we have any?

International Trade committee  I'm going to respond in two ways. I'm an optimistic person by nature, so I remain optimistic. We worked very hard to get resolution on the free trade agreement with the United States. I think you're talking about the autos side letter that was negotiated as part of the deal, w

International Trade committee  I don't think there's any reason to believe we've given up anything on our ability to take action against Chinese dumping, or dumping from non-market economies. That's a process that continues—

International Trade committee  With a free trade agreement, I think that's another order of economic relationship, but existing rules enable us.... The steel industry I think is one of the biggest users of the CITT process, and all of the improvements that were made were made on their recommendation. They have

International Trade committee  It's very difficult to distinguish between the effects of the tariffs and the effects of the higher prices. I would absolutely agree with that.

International Trade committee  The key thing we need to remember in all of this is that the focus of the U.S. policy as stated is to enable American plants to reopen. That has been the focus, in particular on the steel side but also the aluminum side. From day one, their target has been Canadian and other co

International Trade committee  I can't give you a date when it will happen, but I can tell you that job number one in moving to a decision on safeguards is to ensure that we have the analytical base needed, because, obviously, there's a trade legal process on the other side of this. The evidence base needs to

International Trade committee  Innovation Canada was set up to provide a single point of entry into public service programs. It allows companies to enter basic information and have recommendations made back to them about what programs they could qualify for. Then it makes the people who are responsible for tho

International Trade committee  I'll take a stab at it. On the strategic innovation fund, $10 million is actually the project size. That's the de minimis on it. In part, it's because of the administration of the funding. The way the funding is set up around these types of programs is that they're there to su

International Trade committee  Yes, it's correct.